Tech Like a PIRATE helps provide the tools, ideas, and inspiration for educators to use technology as a treasure map to amazing learning. With a customizable set of principles for ensuring that technology is an asset, and not a barrier, Matt Miller’s guidance will help all teachers—from the tech-savvy to the tech-terrified—create impactful, transformative learning using low- or no-cost equipment.
The practical ideas in the latest of the DITCH series will help you find the sweet spot where tech meets students’ needs. In this teacher-tailored guide, you’ll find tips on how to use technology to differentiate learning. Whether you're a tech newbie or the school’s device guru, you’ll walk away with new understandings and strategies for transforming your approach to teaching.
Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They’re often outdated as soon as they hit students’ desks. Acting “by the textbook” implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It’s time to ditch those textbooks—and those textbook assumptions about learning! In Ditch That Textbook, teacher and blogger Matt Miller encourages educators to throw out meaningless, pedestrian teaching and learning practices. He empowers them to evolve and improve on old, standard, teaching methods. Ditch That...
